i celebrated my fourth year home on december 22, 2008. and -- it is not lost on me. every single day i feel like i have been blessed to have this opportunity not only for myself but for the countless people who are still serving time in the state and federal system -- particularly for drug offenses, nonviolent offenses, and -- i think that every day i'm out here, it is -- part and parcel to do some work in their honor because will are plenty of deserving people who -- who should have or should be entitled toing a second chance. >> let's look at some of the numbers on that point because there's would stories about people in prison. there is a story about people who do bad things and get sent to prison and there is a story about politicians deciding we should just send a lot more people to prison. if you look at the shift aggregate from 1972 to 2008, we have seen mainly because of drug sentencing laws the prison population in the united states go up not double, not triple, but go up by seven times. according to one pew study, nonpartisan group, annual state and federal